He has guarded her coastline in silence for six hundred years. Tonight, her blood wakes him, and the last monster of Blackwood will burn down the world before he lets her go.
Maren Wren keeps a dead lighthouse on the loneliest headland on the coast. She is the last of her line, a stubborn engineer who trusts tide charts and old stone more than she trusts people, and she has spent her whole life being useful to everything that wants something from her.
Then the storm comes. The road washes out. Men with a federal lie painted on their trucks come hunting her blood. And the weathered gargoyle in the brush above the sea cracks open, white hot and alive, and says her name like he has waited centuries to use it.
He has.
Orion is the Gatewarden, the last King still locked in stone, built and abandoned to hold shut a door that must never open.
The thing under the cliff is opening. The Gate wants a wall. And every instinct in Orion is telling him to become one.
Claim of Stone is the scorching, emotional finale of The Stone Kings of Blackwood: a fated-mates monster romance about a touch-her-and-die guardian who has to learn that being loved is not the same as being used up. Storm-locked proximity, a furnace-hot bond, full-heat scenes, and a hard-won happily ever after six books in the making. New readers can start here.
Reader favorites inside: gargoyle monster romance, fated mates, forced proximity, touch-starved guardian, size difference, possessive protective hero, nesting instinct, gothic paranormal romance, and a series finale that pays everything off.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Maren Wren keeps a dead lighthouse on the loneliest headland on the coast. She is the last of her line, a stubborn engineer who trusts tide charts and old stone more than she trusts people, and she has spent her whole life being useful to everything that wants something from her.
Then the storm comes. The road washes out. Men with a federal lie painted on their trucks come hunting her blood. And the weathered gargoyle in the brush above the sea cracks open, white hot and alive, and says her name like he has waited centuries to use it.
He has.
Orion is the Gatewarden, the last King still locked in stone, built and abandoned to hold shut a door that must never open.
The thing under the cliff is opening. The Gate wants a wall. And every instinct in Orion is telling him to become one.
Claim of Stone is the scorching, emotional finale of The Stone Kings of Blackwood: a fated-mates monster romance about a touch-her-and-die guardian who has to learn that being loved is not the same as being used up. Storm-locked proximity, a furnace-hot bond, full-heat scenes, and a hard-won happily ever after six books in the making. New readers can start here.
Reader favorites inside: gargoyle monster romance, fated mates, forced proximity, touch-starved guardian, size difference, possessive protective hero, nesting instinct, gothic paranormal romance, and a series finale that pays everything off.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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